Artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 2024, the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S Pavilion at the international art event, with an exhibit titled "the space in which to place me."
"The U.S. State Department has selected an Indigenous artist to represent the country at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will be the first such artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion at the prestigious international arts event. That's according to a statement this week from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the government body responsible for co-curating the U.S. Pavilion, alongside Oregon's Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico." Visit Gibson at the Biennale here:
https://www.jeffreygibsonvenice2024.org/
Jeffrey Gibson gave a visiting artist lecture at the Art Research Center in January 2022, in conversation with then director Julia Bryan-Wilson. Read more about Gibson and watch his artist talk here:
https://arts.berkeley.edu/news/artist-talk-jeffrey-gibson
Read more from the State Department announcement here:
https://nwfc.pam.org/jeffrey-gibson-to-represent-united-states-at-60th-v...